x post @keccers women's [fill in the blank] hasn't been as well studied as men's š£ I am oblivious to my cycle (thank you mirena) but anyone else have any thoughts? https://warpcast.com/keccers/0xf79e64
All of it š« There is a gap in scientific understanding itās closing fast but Ex: This 2020 review of 86 common medications found that women were likely routinely overmedicated and suffered adverse reactions nearly twice as often as men. https://bsd.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13293-020-00308-5
Not quite that but in Animal Languages a couple of studies were seen less scientific because they werenāt the traditional approach, they were structured and design by women who were trying to understand things differently. One of them as Jane Goodall, it took a while for her studies to be considered āscientificā
Saw recently the news about the first female crash test dummy testing that was done in Sweden & the reports from that. I worked b4 at the Johns Hopkins Center for Research and Policy and was shocked at how car seat safety regulations only became a fed requirement in 1985, thanks to women-led research /advocacy efforts
I went to a storytelling night where a woman talked about studying cervical mucus in a semen research group. She found out it plays a much bigger role in selection than previously thought, but semen fitness has been the narrative forever https://arianaremmel.com/2019/06/28/on-mucus-and-growing-up-to-be-a-scientist/
Most healthcare studies are biased towards white men, I learned about it during my psych degree https://www.apa.org/monitor/2019/12/ce-corner-race https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1745691620927709 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1761670/